What’s new in Elderella

Talk to Ella out loud

Speak to Ella and watch her work, a new home for your briefings, and appointments that fill themselves in.

Highlights

• Talk to Ella out loud. Tap the mic and just talk to her instead of typing. Ella shows the steps she’s taking as she looks things up, lets you stop her mid-answer, marks where each fact came from, and replies in whatever language you write in.
• Every briefing in one place. All your care briefings now live together, where you can read them right in Elderella, correct anything that isn’t right, regenerate, or share as a PDF — opening as a proper document you can rotate to landscape and zoom through.
• Medications that keep up with you. Adding a medication no longer pauses while Elderella checks for interactions; the check runs in the background and tells you if something turns up. And when a medication looks like one already on file, Elderella says so before it’s added twice.
• Appointments that fill themselves in. Paste a confirmation email or text and Elderella pulls out the date, time, and place for you, along with a suggested list of questions to ask. Comment and reply on any appointment, and reorder your tasks right in the list.
• A care team that’s easier to build. Add a member straight from your phone’s contacts, let addresses autocomplete as you type, and let Elderella catch the duplicates before they happen.

See what’s ahead, not just today

Our biggest addition yet: Care Map, plus a single daily briefing that pulls the day together for you.

Highlights

• Care Map. The list of things to do when you’re not sure where to start, from everyday caregiving to the harder long-term decisions.
• Smarter medications. Elderella spots when a new medication is the brand or generic version of one already on the list, recognizes over-the-counter supplements, and makes interaction warnings clearer with a place to review them anytime.
• Care team details, filled in for you. Add a doctor or care professional and Elderella looks them up online to fill in their contact details for you.
• Switch between the people you care for, faster. A drop-down menu right in the home header lets you move between them, and Elderella remembers who you looked at last.
• Invite Ella to your appointments. Add Ella to a calendar invite and the appointment shows up in Elderella automatically. Perfect if you’d rather not connect your whole calendar.
• Smoother and more reliable. Many speed and stability improvements so Elderella stays responsive even under heavy load.

And also in 1.10

• One simple briefing. Your daily briefing pulls everything together: what happened while you were away, what needs you, and the one thing worth doing this week.
• What makes them who they are. Capture faith, traditions, and the moments that shaped their life, so their story stays with everyone caring for them.
• Fix a detail in seconds. If something in the briefing isn’t right, correct it once and it stays corrected.
• Medication reminders set up for you. Add a medication and Elderella can create its reminders.
• As-needed medications. Mark anything that isn’t on a fixed schedule.
• Phone extensions. Save and dial numbers that include an extension.
• Pending invites. See when a care team invite is still waiting to be accepted.
• Notes find their appointment. Notes are connected automatically to the appointment they belong to.
• Know who called. Call history shows the care team member’s name, captures unknown numbers, and lets you copy a call transcript.
• Doctors pulled from your notes. Professionals mentioned in your notes and documents can be added to your care team automatically.
• One request, one reminder. Asking for a reminder several times a day now creates a single task instead of many.
• A warmer welcome. Gentler setup for new caregivers.

A new home screen, and every call captured

Call protection arrives, a rebuilt home screen, and safer medications.

Highlights

• Call protection. Give your elder a dedicated Elderella number to share with doctors, pharmacies, and family. Calls ring through to their real phone, but Elderella sits quietly in the middle, recording and transcribing every conversation. Read exactly what was said, search the call history, and keep their real number private. Available on Plus and Premium plans.
• A brand-new home screen. Your daily care snapshot, rebuilt from the ground up. Smarter cards, milestone celebrations, and a cleaner layout make it easier to see what matters most today.
• Medication safety. Elderella flags risky drug combinations when you add or edit a medication, and asks you to confirm moderate interactions before saving.
• See where every detail comes from. Ella points to the note, task, event, or medication behind each answer, and any care detail traces back to its origin, whether a call, a message, or a document. Notes, chat, medications, and events all link back.

And also in 1.9

• Briefings in the background. Start one, keep going, and get a tap-to-open notification when it’s ready.
• Pharmacy details at hand. Edit pharmacy and prescription details, and tap any number to call the pharmacy or prescriber.
• Scan and carry on. Photograph a pill pack and get back to your day; review the results when the scan finishes.
• Record with confidence. Pause and resume, keep recording when your screen turns off, and recover your work if something interrupts you.
• Two-person conversations. When two people are talking, the note reads as a clean back-and-forth instead of one block of text.
• Notes get comments and reactions. The whole team can weigh in, and see who’s taken part.
• Errors that point the way. Forms now show the exact field that needs fixing.
• Gentler by design. Better color contrast and support for your phone’s Reduce Motion setting.
• Plain-language messages. Friendlier wording when something goes wrong, instead of raw error codes.
• Care Map upgrades. A new browse screen, a weekly task card, milestone badges, and a smoother flow for capturing what matters.
• A daily plan, with reasons. Ella can suggest what to focus on today and why, with a tidy-up section (in beta).
• Edit a profile inline. Tap any field on the About tab or Home to update a name, birthday, or other details on the spot.
• Siri, refreshed. Updated voice commands so “Hey Siri, ask Ella…” works more reliably on iPhone.

A smoother setup, and clearer notifications

Highlights

• Improved notifications. When several reminders arrive together, you now see your elder’s name in the title and each task called out by name, instead of repeated headers. Task reminders turn on automatically when you add a due date, defaulting to a sensible noon time. Tapping a task’s disabled reminder opens the edit screen at the due date so you can turn it on.
• Revamped onboarding. Clearer steps from start to finish, a new “How did you find us?” question, an optional WhatsApp family group setup that adds Ella as a participant, and a redesigned Add to Team flow where you enter details first and choose whether to invite afterwards. When you add a new elder during onboarding, your text routing switches automatically so Ella knows who you’re texting about.
• Support for tentative events. Events your elder mentions as “maybe” or “possibly” are saved as Tentative, so they don’t clutter your confirmed calendar. You can see at a glance which events are set and which still need a decision.
• Redesigned home screen. Post-onboarding and reminder cards now use a single system with proper priority ordering, so the most important cards rise to the top and the layout stays consistent as you move through setup.

The foundation

Daily briefings, vaccine tracking, and dozens of improvements caregivers asked for.

Catch up in one read

• Catch Me Up. A personalized daily briefing replaced the old weekly summary, giving you a quick read on what’s been happening.
• Softer daily questions. The daily check-in questions were reworded to feel more natural and less clinical, with a smooth progress bar.

Medications and vaccines, together

• Vaccine tracking. Track vaccinations alongside medications, keeping both in one place.
• Reminders that fit real life. A new “every other day” option for medications that aren’t taken on a simple daily schedule.
• Add from your photos. Choose an existing photo from your library when adding a medication.

One calendar for everything

• Phone calendar, connected. Caregiving appointments now sit alongside your personal schedule, both ways.

Keep the whole team in the loop

• “Seen by” on notes. Know who on the team has caught up.
• Task notifications. Get notified when a teammate completes a task, with access levels that give medical professionals the right view.
• Shared notes. Care team members can edit each other’s notes, and follow-ups surface in the timeline.

Ella remembers, and helps more

• Ella remembers. She carries context from past chats, so you don’t have to repeat yourself.
• Ask her anything. Ask about medication interactions or how any feature works, and get friendly guidance.
• A warmer tone. Ella feels more personal and adjusts to the time of day.

Fewer interruptions, more control

• Works offline. Create notes, tasks, and events without a connection, and they save once you’re back online.
• Fewer interruptions. Notifications are batched to cut down on alert fatigue.
• You stay in control. Review and edit the details Elderella picks up before you confirm them.

Elderella comes to iPhone

Our first release on both iPhone and Android, plus the features that rounded out the early months: pill-pack scanning, briefings, subscriptions, and WhatsApp for the whole team.

Highlights

• Now on iPhone. Elderella’s first release for iPhone, bringing the full app to Apple alongside Android.
• Pill pack scanning. Photograph a pill pack to capture several medications at once, then set their reminders in one guided step.
• Elder Briefing Note. A warm, one-page summary of an elder to hand to a caregiver, doctor, or family member, with Ella filling in the gaps.
• Google Drive import and Calendar sync. Documents flow in from Google Drive automatically, and an elder’s events stay matched with your everyday calendar.
• Subscriptions and plans. In-app plans with a free trial and per-elder subscriptions.
• WhatsApp for everyone. Bring an elder’s WhatsApp group messages into Elderella, now available to all users.
• See who’s doing what. Care team member cards show how many tasks each person has, and weekly summaries break it down by person.

And also

• Care team invitations during onboarding. Invite family and helpers right from setup.
• Communication preferences. Choose exactly which updates you get, channel by channel.
• Task accountability check-ins. Ella gently nudges the right person about outstanding tasks.
• Review your recordings before sending, attach several photos, or scan multi-page documents in one go.
• In-app document viewing for PDFs, briefings, and text files.
• Self-service data export and a dedicated Help & Support screen.
• Smarter medications. A familiar name with the generic in brackets, schedules read from everyday wording, and dosage changes captured.
• Siri and Google Assistant. Ask by voice and hear Ella’s spoken reply.

Where Elderella began

Elderella’s very first release, on Android — the foundation everything since is built on.

The launch feature set

• Elder profiles and care team. A profile for each person you care for, and invite family and helpers by text or email, each with the right level of access.
• Ella, your care partner. Chat with Ella for warm, region-aware guidance, reachable by text or email to share updates.
• Notes by text, photo, and voice. Capture what’s happening in a tap; hour-long voice notes are written out automatically, and a photo of a document becomes searchable text.
• Tasks and reminders. To-dos, including recurring ones, with gentle, well-timed reminders and quiet suggestions drawn from your notes.
• Medications. Track medications with photo capture, reminders, duplicate checks, and gentle safety notes.
• Events and calendar. Track appointments and connect Google Calendar, with healthcare and family events sorted automatically.
• Sharing by text and email. Coordinate over group texts, and forward appointment emails to a private address that flow straight into Elderella.
• Documents and search. A safe document library with searchable contents, and search that understands meaning across everything.
• Confirm before it’s saved. When Elderella spots a task, event, or medication in what you share, it asks first, so you stay in control.
• A weekly summary and home overview that pull the week’s notes, tasks, and events together at a glance.
• Simple, secure sign-in with a phone code, then Face ID or Touch ID.